lol, well your cheating isn't nearly as bad as the way I cheat. Try eating one cookie (we call them biscuits where i'm from, but I'll say cookie as most people here I assume are from US) and then not stopping at one, but eating the entire packet, then drinking fizzy drink!!

Does that make you feel a little better? But don't be fooled into feeling too much better, because the candida is in on it for sure.

Depending on how sick you are, depending on whether you get the underlining condition fixed, will determine whether you can ever really go off the diet. Most people at some point manage to include some things back again on a limited basis, but you have to monitor your own symptoms carefully in case you crash big time and it's easy to do.

So, if you recover from mercury, then you may not need such a strict diet, as your immune system will be better equipped to fight candida. But until then, you may be stuck struggling on it like I am and others.

I wish I could eat fruit and grains and things, I see them as natural, but they cause issues with me, so I realise whatever my view of them, they don't do me much good these days. I guess I have candida very badly.

Again depends how bad you got it, and what other things your body is battling at the sametime.

But definitely don't give up and get back on track when you can. Your hotdog slip up was understandable, we all do it, but for me? cheating is just devastating, I'm bad enough as it is. You may get away with it a bit more, I don't know.